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Spamassassin is and has been perfectly adequate as long as you train your filter regularly with new spam. And the more users you filter for, the more spam you
by INTPenis 8y ago
Spamassassin is and has been perfectly adequate as long as you train your filter regularly with new spam.
And the more users you filter for, the more spam you should be feeding your filter, and regularly.
When the person says their gmail account is full of spam I take that with a grain of salt because I've been using gmail since it started, when it was like 5 invites only, and I use it as my throwaway account everywhere. I know for a fact that gmail does an excellent job at filtering spam.
- tjoff 8y agoGmail is terrible. False positives are a nightmare and if you have to check the spam folder then the spam filter does more harm than good. That is also my experience with SA.
- ryandrake 8y agoAdditionally, I found Gmail will sometimes deny legitimate E-mail as "spam" as it comes in, before it even reaches your Spam folder. I tested this for a week or so by forwarding my personal E-mail from my mail server to my address at Gmail and checking my server logs. This was one of the things that finally pushed me over to self-hosting. Mail does not get lost with Spamassassin if it's set up to deliver spam into a separate folder. As long as the mail passes the trivial SPF, DKIM, etc. checks, it will at least get to my junk folder.